Question :
How to display the number of Virtual processor(vCPU) on linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) ?
Answer :
To display the number of virtual processor(cpu) on linux vps, you have to run any of this command :
1. This command will display exact number of virtual cpu (vCPU) :
[root@centos62 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l 2
2. This command will grep any available vCPU. First cpu will start with 0.
Example of linux CentOS server with 1 vCPU :
[root@centos62 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor processor : 0
Example of linux CentOS server with 2 vCPU :
[root@centos62 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor processor : 0 processor : 1
or this command will return the same result as steps (2).
[root@centos62 ~]# grep processor /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0
For additional information, you can display the number of cores on each CPU. Either Duo/Quad?
[root@centos62 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep cpu\ cores |uniq cpu cores : 4